When he was young, Shanghe was a gentle scholar. After the scientific examination, he was sent to the Central Plains, from the county official step by step to a town guard, and devoted half his life to this piece of land. At this time, he had washed away the childishness of his youth, and was stained with a layer of roughness by the scorching sun and wind and sand.

As a node on the westbound trade route, Shanghe City is blessed with unique geographical conditions to ensure the prosperity of commerce here, but at the same time, it is also a mixture of dragons and snakes, and various groups of people are mixed in it. Not to mention that as the closest node city to such a big cultivation sect as the Sword Shrine, there will be some cultivators staying here from time to time, how can there be less open and secret battles during this period?

Such a complex environment makes it necessary to work hard day and night to ensure the normal operation of a city, which also makes Shanghe Zhenshou already born early at an age that is not old, showing some vicissitudes of life.

Fortunately, the Imperial Dynasty has never been afraid to maintain order with effort and ruthlessness in such an important town, and just one side of the town guarding the seal and cooperating with the city defense array is enough to give a warning to anyone who wants to cause trouble in the city.

It must be known that these two are called together, and with the help of imperial luck, it is the earth's leyline and heavenly power that are triggered, which has an extremely great deterrent power within the earthly character realm. At the same time, the movement of a city will also resonate with the rest of the surrounding town guards, once assistance is needed, several large seals will be activated at the same time, hundreds or even thousands of miles of earth veins will be attracted together, and the heavenly power will descend, I am afraid that the most powerful group of Tianzi Realm cultivators will not want to try their edge.

Shanghe Zhenshou is not a cultivator. In fact, in his youthful years, the so-called cultivator existed only in the casual chatter and boasting of the idlers in the village.

However, as he entered Beijing to take the exam, he passed through those Xiongcheng that he had never seen before, and saw those frame courtyards that were far more luxurious than he imagined, until he saw the so-called immortal family that came and went high and high according to the clouds and converged on the glory of the five hundred miles outside the dragon gate in the capital, and he believed that in this world, there was a group of incomparably noble beings in the eyes of mortals who seemed to be above ordinary people and ordinary people, enjoying the power and resources that mortals could not reach in their lifetime.

And these feudal towns and the great seals of the towns are the most powerful reliance of the imperial dynasty to balance this group of cultivators who can destroy the mountains and bury the sea with their moves, and they are also the greatest reliance for ordinary people to live and work in peace and contentment in their own world.

But tonight, the Shanghe Town guard found something not quite right in the routine patrol feedback of the city defense array.

It's like a well-oiled carriage with a tiny crack in some unnoticed place. The rift was not enough to destroy the carriage, or even enough to cause anything unusual in the normal operation of the carriage, but for a seasoned coachman who had been driving the carriage for several years, the discord was enough to be perceived, not only to be perceived, but also to give rise to a faint discomfort that could not be controlled as easily as before.

This is uncomfortable enough to attract enough attention from Shanghe Zhenshou.

I soaked the square towel in cold water and pressed it on the face that was depressed due to lack of sleep. The cold touch quickly awakened the tired spirit of Shanghe Zhenshou.

routinely led the town guard array, and then a general map of Shanghe City appeared in the study.

The point of light that marked the breath of the people in the city appeared blank somewhere.

In fact, there are many such blank spaces on the streets and alleys in the dead of night, but this kind of scene should never appear in the place where the deep house compound is located.

What's more, above this blank space, two bright and dazzling points of light that mark the practitioner are flickering and flickering.

It seemed that these two cultivators had slaughtered the entire Chen Mansion for some reason.

Could it be that there was something in the Chen Mansion that offended these cultivators, or was there some other reason?

Moreover, not only did the two cultivators not retreat, but they remained where they were, not knowing whether they were arrogant or ignorant.

Shang Hezhen frowned.

After the death of the former head of the Chen family, the old lady was in charge of the operation of the Chen family, and she has always been low-key, restrained in her edge, and even scattered wealth for good. There are two medical halls and one school in the city, which was donated by the Chen Mansion the day before yesterday. These days, I heard that the old lady was not in good health, and as a town guard, he also sent someone to send a few medicinal materials to regulate and nourish qi.

Although the Chen family has a large family business, they rarely make enemies, and if it is said that they have offended the cultivators, the Shanghe Town Guardian Committee really can't believe it.

At this moment, on the streets and alleys where the sky was beginning to be white, the soldiers who were patrolling the night ended their inspections, handed over the documents, and came to the food stalls they were accustomed to eating in groups. A bowl of white-skinned noodles and a spoonful of shiny meat sauce are mixed well with crisp and refreshing pickles. If it is the day when it is just made, add two more slices of marinated big fat meat, three or five cents, which is the best reward for your hard work all night.

The city is not crowded, and there is still the quiet and lazy of the night receding. That is, the sound of hot water on the food stalls, and the sound of diners sucking noodles and drinking soup not far away. Occasionally, a few small talks, mostly homely chatters such as finally being able to go home to see a daughter-in-law and a child.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves startled, and they galloped all the way from the town guard's mansion.

Although the soldiers had already handed over, when they saw this posture, they knew that something must have happened, and they did not care about the hot soup, swallowed the food in three or two bites, patted the copper coins, picked up the saber, and galloped away after the sound of the horse's hooves.

The Shanghe Town Guard mount traveled extremely fast, and it was only more than a moment to rush from the Town Guard Mansion to the Chen Mansion. In the meantime, he noticed his movement and spontaneously joined the soldiers who followed, and there were nearly a hundred people at this time, but they did not get orders, and only dared to follow from afar. When the town guard stopped his horses, and there was no order to disperse, he approached and formed a simple army formation in front of and on the side of the town guard.

He looked at these soldiers who came with him, and his heart warmed slightly.

At first, when he saw the blank space and the two points of light, when he rode out of the town guard mansion, he only brought two military attachés and instructors in the mansion with him. After all, with the dazzling degree of those two rays of light, if there was really a conflict, he didn't rely on the city defense array, but just a city's city defense soldiers smashed it, I am afraid it would just be for nothing, so he didn't rush to gather people. But as the imperial dynasty is guarding the town and sheltering the people, nearly a thousand lives in the Chen Mansion must be asked to come back.

The next moment, the dead silence of the Chen Mansion attracted everyone's attention.

There was no hesitation. Dismount, push the door, and enter the house.

Only one of the two leaders was allowed to accompany him, while the other stood by and waited.

After all, if he was really a ferocious cultivator, with these people behind him now, I was afraid that entering it would be more or less just a dead word.

It's better to just walk in and wait for the opportunity.

The Shanghe Town Guard clenched the Great Seal of the Town Guard in his hand, as if he wanted to draw some strength from this seal.

The Chen Mansion is huge, and even though the outline of the mansion has been copied, it took some work to find the backyard.

There were no corpses along the way, no bloodstains, and even some places still had the breath of life.

It was as if the people of Yifu had just disappeared out of thin air, leaving not even the slightest trace of struggle or confrontation.

The town guard frowned slightly. This was more than he expected.

And in the backyard, which turned a small door and suddenly showed a depraved color completely different from the rest of the house, two people stood quietly and crossed their knees, which exceeded his guess of the "murderer".